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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

KARK Parent Company Names New Station GM, Promotes Rogala

Arkansas Business.com reports KARK's parent company Nexstar has promoted Rick Rogala to company vice president and regional manager and Northwest Arkansas GM Mike Vaughn comes to Little Rock and becomes GM and vice president of KARK.

"I would say Simas is Beantown bound !!! She is from that area. With her and S. Tonsall leaving, boy does that open up a can of anchors. Whose going to replace Simas, Dean or Suares? Inquiring minds !"

I wouldn't say that. 7 and 4 were down and 11 was up by a tenth of a point over last year. However they did dominate in demos. Although 7 did their best to "buy" the book from viewers, and that did fail. It may be about book placement more than anything else. Nielson has been very good to 7 over the last couple of years with a lot of books placed in SE Arkansas - where 7 does dominate. You have Dale Nicholson to thank for that. It'll be interesting to see this time next year since 11 will have Alyse on board and 7 will Alyson. Both were missing during the May book this year. Also, look at how changes will continue at 4 and 7 over the next several months with Beth leaving and possibly Barry as well to a different daypart. KARK has to replace Mike - who carried that program for them. 11's show will stabilize with Alsyse, Ashley and Joey the Cat.

I work at 11 and I can honestly say people like 12:26 make me sad. We won the morning but 7 won everything else and 4 had a bad book. I can't stand reading excuses like 'bad book placement is to blame.' Every station uses that as an excuse when we lose but when we win of course we never talk about it. Its just so lame.

I think 4 has a lot of good people and deserves to do better in the ratings, but they should stop throwing the word investigation around...it looks a little silly and it cheapens their few stories that truly are investigative.

It's just eyewash and someone came up with the idea that they would call themselves "Investigators" and trying to sell it to the viewers. You are right. It is becoming annoying to say the least. Also, I am tired of hearing "In High Definition" on every promo they run and all the bumpers. Just about wore it out.

"Add to that: when will thv stop saying "first in hd" at the beginning of every newscast?"

I hear and agree with you but at least KARK has an HD shot by every studio camera, unlike KTHV that is rumored to have surveillance cameras in the weather garden and look, well, like Hell. Does not management ever look at a newscast? Hard to believe.

So, I guess they are the first with every camera shot in the studio being HD.

"I don't know what kind of tv you all are watching THV on, but the surveillance cameras they have look fine and HD to me. . . ."

Well, you must be a management person at KTHV which would explain why you think the surveillance cameras look HD to you. That is what I would say if I were trying to defend a shoddy looking product. And, by the way, KATV looks better in SD than that surveillance camera. Also, it must be mounted on a post since it is always shoot down on the subjects. What a joke. Also, why the need to do the weather outside? I see that KTHV Channel 12 has abandoned the "Weather Board" in the garden since they could not get the "Chroma Key" thing to work right. Good job and great decision. Do you need someone to light the set so it will work? Contact the people at KARK, KATV, KLRT or even KETS.